About the exhibition «On the Day of Defenders of the Fatherland» at the institution «State Archive of Public Associations of the Mogilev Region»

On February 19, 2024, in the institution «State Archive of Public Associations of the Mogilev Region», the exhibition «On the Day of Defenders of the Fatherland» was placed in the reading room of the archive.

Every year on February 23, our country celebrates the Day of Defenders of the Fatherland and the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus. This holiday was established by Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus No.157 of March 26, 1998.

The history of the holiday begins on February 23, 1918, when the Red Guard troops won their first victories near Pskov and Narva over the regular troops of the Kaiser’s Germany.

In 1922, this date was officially declared Red Army Day. Since 1946, February 23 was celebrated annually in the USSR as a national holiday – the Day of the Soviet Army and Navy, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union it was renamed Defender of the Fatherland Day.

The exhibition presents documents from the archives.